DEFINITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF BUSINESS RULES WHILE ENFORCING SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC VALIDATION

A method and system that provides for the definition and distribution of business rules is disclosed. The method provides for receiving login information that is used to initiate an authentication process, making an authentication based on the received login information, receiving server communicated XML (Extensible Markup Language) business rules and DTD (document type definition), modifying a business rule based on input from the authenticated source, and the validating of the modified business rule. Moreover, the method and system of the present invention provides for the sending of a new XML business rule to a server. The new business rule is created as a declarative object instead of a programming object.